Worst couples in literature: No.10 Rosamund Vincy & Dr Tertius Lydgate from Middlemarch

⚠️ Editor's Note: Due to upload issues, some of the original moving footage was replaced with still images. The original version of the video can be viewed on my substack. Or stick with this video, there is footage from a dramatisation later on. This couple is a clear case of two decent people who might have been happy if only they had married someone else. George Eliot’s brilliant psychological portraits of Dr Tertius Lydgate and Miss Rosamund Vincy from her novel Middlemarch. Including how the marriage faired from early pleasure, through crisis and life-sapping compromise and eventually to Lydgate’s premature death at 50.